And so it continues....House begins tearing up Obama-era rules

[Rustyeye77]

The House passed two bills on Wednesday that will erase regulations targeting the coal industry and the oil and mining sector, launching Republicans' offensive against a series of late-term rules put in place by former President Barack Obama.

If it passes the Senate and is signed by President Donald Trump, as is expected, the vote will mark the first time in 15 years that lawmakers successfully used the Congressional Review Act to unwind executive branch actions — and Republicans lawmakers who were enraged over Obama’s expansive regulatory agenda say they are prepared to deploy the tool to kill a dozen or more rules on energy, labor and guns.

The first two such resolutions cleared the House on Wednesday, largely along party line votes, and target the Interior Department’s stream rule, which aimed to protect waterways from pollution from mountaintop coal mining but was fiercely opposed by the industry and GOP. The second kills a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring oil, gas and mining companies to reveal payments made to foreign governments.

"These measures will deliver relief from regulations that threaten to wipe off thousands of jobs in the energy industry," House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/obama-rules-regulations-234523


FUPR

[Lindsay]

1. Where "thousands of jobs"

actually means "millions in profits."

I'm gonna have to start compiling an alt-dictionary for this kind of crap.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. One can only hope that when the "worm turns"...

That these Republican slugs will be forced back under the rocks they deserve to live under.

[logosoco]

3. I can't say this without sounding alliterative

People who put profit before the planet should not be in charge of making policy!

[Rustyeye77]

4. Guns

Republicans lawmakers who were enraged over Obama’s expansive regulatory agenda say they are prepared to deploy the tool to kill a dozen or more rules on energy, labor and guns.


great...more mass shootings
thanks Paul

[BlueCaliDem]

5. If President Obama's rules benefit working Americans and not solely corporations and rich

people, it will be shredded.

Republicans are in Gov't in order to divert working Americans' tax dollars to the lazy rich people who can't get enough money no matter how many billions they already have stashed away.

Republicans want to turn the United States government into one giant plantation house with working Americans as modern-day slaves. All their domestic policies appear to do just that, and any policies that don't are hated, attacked, and when they're in power, rescinded almost immediately.

[Rustyeye77]

6. And yet , working Americans voted for this a$$hole.

why vote to screw yourself?

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Hate-of-others uber alles with this crowd. It blinds them to reason and common sense.

But they're the first to whine and wail when they're hit in the pocketbooks, yet still can't see that the Democratic Party actually gave them everything they're enjoying today. They never ask themselves, what has the Republican Party done for me lately?

[Guilded Lilly]

9. Their hate is as strong as their STUPID.

[Thrill]

8. They always claim it will help jobs

To fool the working class idiots that vote for them